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Dave McKean is a world-renowned creative person, interior decorator, and movie manager who has illustrated several books for kids, including The Savage by David Almond, and Coraline, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and The Wolfs in the Wall, wholly by Neil Gaiman. Dave McKean lives in England.

Jonathan Carroll ( B. 1949 ) is an award-winning American writer of modern phantasy and airstream novels. His introduction book, The Land of Laughs ( 1980 ) , tells the narrative of a children’s writer whose imaginativeness has left the printed page and begun to act upon world. The book introduced several trademarks of Carroll’s authorship, including speaking animate beings and universes that straddle the thin line between world and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists.Outside the Dog Museum ( 1991 ) was named the best novel of the twelvemonth by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular plants. Since so he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup ( 2005 ) and, most late, The Ghost in Love ( 2008 ) . His short narratives have been collected in The Panic Hand ( 1995 ) and The Woman Who Married a Cloud ( 2012 ) . He continues to populate and compose in Vienna.

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source...

For most of us Christmas is the season of huge helpings of good food, good drink, and with luck, good cheer, as the rituals of cracker-pulling, present-giving and happy or sulphurous family reunions fizzle and bang through the long afternoon. For anyone who has ever had too much of it,...

A timeless classic to be read over and over. The story of Sara Crewe, the little princess who triumphs over loneliness, poverty, and cruelty, is as powerful and exciting today as when it was first published in 1905. Wise beyond her years and compassionate beyond her circumstances, Sara...